Ataris - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Sep 1998

...
  At 10:31 PM 8/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Yeah, I know a number of musicians using STs in preference to more
>modern PC VESA/PCI sound cards -- there is some program out of
>Germany (dongle protected) that apparently has yet to be equalled on
>Wintel platforms. 
...
  Probably Cubase -- which I would be using if a) I had
and money, b) I had
 any talent, and c) I had any time.  Cubase Audio for the Falcon (68030)
 offered (iirc) 8 or 16 track digital recording straight out of the box.
 Serious digital recording & MIDI for around a grand.  (Used Falcon, Cubase,
 and a big hard drive.) 
...
  Also, there are ST clones available from (iirc) Canada
and/or Germany with
 fast 68060 processors, tower cases, IDE and SCSI support, true
 multi-tasking, etc.  The Medusa, if I recall correctly.   
In fact there are 3 major NEW designs ST compatible computers in
Europe: Hades, Medusa and Milan (1 French and 2 German), and several
small size efforts based on refitet Falcon Boards.

The Milan for examlpe, the newest ST successor is available since
3 month. A 68040/33 MHz (060/80MHz within the next 3 Month), up to
512 MB RAM, 4 PCI, 3 ISA slots, 2 IDE ports, etc. Of course GEM
and TOS in ROM (or to be exact FLASH) - The Milan Computersysteme
GmbH ownes now all legal rights for the TOS/GEM ROMs - now in
version 4.5 (an enhanced 3.x like on the Falcon). Eventualy they
licenced the new PCI-BIOS to all other ST compatible manufacturers
virtualy for free. A multitasking OS is also includest

And the best of all: A basic configuration (Milan 040, 1 GB HD,
16 MB RAM, 2 MB Trio V64+ Video, Midi tower, PC-Keyboard, Mouse
and some SW) is just DM 1499,- (including tax) thats something
like USD 750,- (without tax). Incredible cheap - A Mac Performa
630 (040/33Mhz) is used still something like USD 400.

There an enormus power alive in the european ST family.

(oops, again off topic, but I still like ATARI :)

...
  And, while we're on the subject, anyone get to the
World of Atari in Las
 Vegas last weekend? 
Any URL for a report _with_ info ?

--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK